Reference
P83/25/96
Title
File of correspondence of Educational and Apprenticeship Charities
Date free text
1891-1898
Production date
From: 1891 To: 1898
Scope and Content
including, amongst other things:
- refusal of Charity Commissioners to approve a pension for the former schoolmaster, Mr.Skeeles and proposal to devote £40 per annum to maintaining National Girls School [1891];
- correspondence regarding position of Trustees of Roe’s Charity following the Endowed School becoming a Board School, in particular the possibility of Board members playing a part in the decision making regarding prizes etc. [1891-1903]
- list of boys receiving awards [1895-1899];
- names of boys eligible to benefit by Roe’s Educational Charity [1895];
- lease of Wrayfields land to Parish Council [1895];
- offer by Bedfordshire County Council to accept a scholar from Stotfold to the Farm School at Ridgmont [1895];
- letter from J.E.Wood, former headmaster, to Trustees regarding his salary and other matters [1896];
- apprentice (Arthur Tuck) who could not complete his apprenticeship due to his employer in Peckham [London], giving up his business following a fire, including a well argued letter by the boy’s father to the Trustees condemning the employer’s various actions and a very strongly worded letter from father to employer [1896];
- agreement to reduce rent of Wrayfields tenant farmers due to dry season [1896];
- prizes given in a lump sum rather than at intervals during the year for the first time [1897];
- Charity Commission warning not to give preference to
Church of England boys over more deserving cases
Level of description
file